[Mediawiki-l] Two new extensions: Maps and Semantic Maps

[Yaron Koren]

Hi, this is actually from Jeroen De Dauw; I'm just sending it because this
mailing list seems to be bouncing his emails...
-Yaron
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Hey,

First of all, let me introduce myself.
I'm Jeroen De Dauw, one of the GSoC students for Wikimedia foundation this
year. During the last 2 months I've been working on 2 new mapping extensions
for MediaWiki and Semantic
MediaWiki<http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki>[0]
with Yaron
Koren <http://yaronkoren.com/> [1] as mentor. You can read more about this
at my blog <http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/> [2].

The first version of both extensions has just been released. These are the
extensions:

Maps
Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps> [3] is an extension that
provides the ability to display coordinate data, using multiple mapping
services, including Google Maps [4], OpenLayers [5] and Yahoo Maps [6], and
allows users to geocode addresses.

Semantic Maps
Semantic Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps> [7] is
an extension that adds semantic capabilities to the Maps extension, and
therefore provides the ability to add, view and edit coordinate data stored
through the Semantic MediaWiki extension, using multiple mapping services.
These include Google Maps, OpenLayers and Yahoo Maps. Semantic Maps and Maps
are based on Semantic Google Maps and Semantic Layers, and are meant to
replace these extensions. For this extension to work, you need to have both
Semantic MediaWiki and Maps installed.

You can download both extensions via their documentation pages. Suggestions
and feature requests are welcome.

[0] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
[1] http://yaronkoren.com/
[2] http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/
[3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps
[4] http://code.google.com/apis/maps/
[5] http://openlayers.org/
[6] http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/
[7] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps
Cheers,
De Dauw '[RTS]BN+VS*' Jeroen

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